This is the fourth volume of proceedings of the workgroup Egypt and Austria, which has recently developed into Egypt and Central Europe. The volume includes contributions on Austrian migrations to Egypt and vice versa, on the political as well as economic relations within the Eastern Mediterranean during the 19th century and there is also a special section devoted to the intercultural (mis-)representations in arts. Two articles remind us of the activities and literary work of Alois Musil, the antipode of Lawrence of Arabia. Contributions are in English, some in German. With this volume, Egypt...

Intensive research in the archives of the university and the academy of sciences, especially in the collection of the former German University in Prague, has brought to light an abundance of new material, new insights and hitherto unforeseen connections. They show the beginnings of Egyptology in Bohemia resp. the Czech Republic in an altogether new light, as an Egyptology which had originally defined itself as Bohemian and only later constituted itself as a Czech one. The essays, collected and updated according to the most recent state of knowledge, for the first time in this volume, also...